The derailment of a train last Saturday in the high-speed tunnel that connects the Madrid stations of Atocha and Chamartín It could have ended in tragedy. This is what Pablo San José, workshop coordinator for the CGT railway sector, reveals to this newspaper: “If they don’t derail it with the switch change, I was going straight against an Iryo that it was full of passengers and that it was stopped waiting for the maneuver to end.
“Adif’s colleagues performed a heroic act because they saved many lives. An accident in a tunnel is a mousetrap because if fire breaks in or there is an explosion as a result of the collision, no one comes out alive,” says San José. “For many railroad workers, the Torre del Bierzo accident in 1944 came to mind. in which hundreds of people died in a tunnel,” he adds.
“Technically, what they did was put the switch on detour to take the train off the track. They put the switch as you should never put it on, but they did it so that the train would derail, although in this case it ended up overturning because it must have had a lot of force,” explains the railwayman.
However, although San José assures that the train that was going out of control was traveling quite fast “because the normal thing is that it would have derailed and that’s it,” It doesn’t seem credible that it was going at 200 km/has heard in the audio of a railway worker that has been published by various media: “It is hard to believe that it can reach 200 km/h due to the inertia of a ramp. I was not there and I did not have a radar to measure the speed, but I “That seems very difficult.”
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